Bill Clinton and North Carolina

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First off, Andrew Johnson wasn't elected during Reconstruction.  Secondly, Carter lost NC in 1980.

Republicans were gaining a lot of strength in the South during the 1990s, due to a combination of a growing middle class and "culture war" issues, with the parties becoming more identified with ideology than they had been before, and less and less commitment to historical partisan identity.   Since NC already had traditionally Republican areas in the western part of the state, it's not surprising that he lost it.

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Clinton and Gore were "mountain Democrats", hence they won the mountain states in the South but lost the coastal plains. More fascinating to me is how they won Louisiana.

Clinton/Gore win Georgia based on their strength in the southern part of the state. They didn't do so well up in the N Georgia mountains

Really, Clinton did worse in the mountainous regions of every Southern state than he did more low lying areas.

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The swing from 1992-1996 could still be explained by tobacco, though. Anyone have access to the map of swings in NC from 1992 to 1996...

Clinton's vote increased by 2% from 92 to 96. It's just that the GOP's increased by 5%.